Pay-related grievances at labour relations board triple post-Phoenix

By Emily HawsSep. 12, 2018

Before Phoenix, pay-related grievances made up about 12 per cent of the complaints filed with the bureaucratsâ€™ labour board. That jumped to 50 per cent and 41 per cent in the two fiscal years afterwards.

A Public Service Alliance of Canada member protests at rally against the Phoenix pay system, which has left tens of thousands of federal public servants with pay issues since February 2016. The number of pay-related grievances at the labour and employment board has significantly increased since Phoenix was launched. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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The number of pay-related complaints at the federal bureaucrats' labour relations board has dropped from its 2016-17 peak, but the number of grievances for the past two fiscal years is at least three times higher than before the Phoenix pay system was launched. In the 2017-18 fiscal year, which ran from April 1, 2017, to March 31, 2018, about 41 per centâ€”or 558â€”of the 1,363 new individual grievances referred to adjudication under the Public Sector Labour Relations Act

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